Agnes Martin Quotes
I used to look in my mind for the unwritten pageif my mind was empty enough I could see itI didn't paint the planeI just drew this horizontal lineThen I found out about all the other linesBut I realized what I liked was the horizontal lineThen I painted the two rectanglescorrect compositionif they're just right
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow time to go to the hotel after I get off the plane, so I bring my Freebird boots or my old school Adidas shell-toes to throw on after I land.
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The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
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I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.
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I have a terrible image in my mind of a cow going to slaughter. There's not a lot of fight in them. Pigs, they'd squeal and thrash around. They'd fight. It's almost as if cows don't know they have a choice. Not that they don't panic, but they do so in a quiet way.
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I used to look in my mind for the unwritten pageif my mind was empty enough I could see itI didn't paint the planeI just drew this horizontal lineThen I found out about all the other linesBut I realized what I liked was the horizontal lineThen I painted the two rectanglescorrect compositionif they're just right
